Books High and Low

Ephron, Hallie. Never Tell a Lie . New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2009. 271 pages. ISBN 9780061567155. David and Ivy are a happil...

Fairstein, Linda. Night Watch . New York: Dutton, 2012. 402 pages. ISBN 9780525952633. Alexandra Cooper, a Manhattan prosecutor, is involv...

Lehane, Dennis. Moonlight Mile . New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2010. 324 pages. ISBN 9780061836923. For those of you who were fa...

Kaaberbøl , Lene and Agnete Friis. The Boy in the Suitcase . New York: Soho, 2011. 313 pages. ISBN 9781569479810. After writing children...

Cara Black. Murder in Pigalle . New York: Soho Crime, 2014. 310 pages. ISBN 9781616952846. Murder in Pigalle is the latest in a series of...

Jussi Adler-Olsen. A Conspiracy of Faith . New York: Penguin, 2013. 504 pages. ISBN 9780142180815. A Conspiracy of Faith is the third boo...

James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet. Witch & Wizard . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. 305 pages. ISBN 9780316074810. W...

American Hustle : I just saw this in January, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be my favorite movie this year. It was that good! Th...

Peter Robinson. Children of the Revolution (An Inspector Banks Novel). New York: William Morrow, 2014. 336 pages. ISBN 9780062240507. Gav...

Junot Diaz. This is How You Lose Her . New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. 217 pages. ISBN 9781594631771. I heard Junot Diaz speak at a Book ...

Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacre...

Robert Alter, The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel. New York: Norton, 1999. 410 pages. ISBN 0393048039. This ...

Mikey Walsh, Gypsy Boy . New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2012. 278 pages. ISBN 9780312622084. Compared with Runnin...

Robert Drews, The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 19...

Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness. New York: Free Press, 2012. 266 pages. ISBN 978451621372. This is another book ...

Paul Jordan, Neanderthal: Neanderthal Man and the Story of Human Origins. Phoenix Mill, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 2000. 239 pages. ISBN 07509...

Peter and Oriel Caine, Paris: Then and Now. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 2003. 144 pages. ISBN 1592231365. I found Paris: Then and No...

Rachel Manija Brown, All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2005. 349 pages. ISBN 1594861390. ...

David Wellington, Chimera . New York: William Morrow, 2013. 432 pages. ISBN 9780062248770. Afghanistan war veteran Jim Chapel has been wor...

Koethi Zan, The Never List. New York: Viking, 2013. 303 pages. ISBN 9780670026517. At the age of 12, Sarah and her friend Jennifer were i...

Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone. New York: William Morrow, 2014. 334 pages. ISBN 9780062309563. Laura Lippman's latest novel, After ...

Candy Chang, Before I Die. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. 303 pages. ISBN 9781250020840. Candy Chang is an artist who decided t...

Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk. Illustrated by Skottie Young. New York: HarperCollins, 2013. 113 pages. ISBN 9780062224071. Neil Gaima...

Once in a while I will use this space to write short movie reviews. While I used to go to the movies about once a week, after we moved to Al...

Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost. New York: Ballantine Books, 2013. 331 pages. ISBN 9780345522023. Songs of Willow Frost is Jamie Ford...

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 339 pages. ISBN 9780307265746. Jhumpa Lahiri's earlier books include The...

Marisha Pessl, Night Film. New York: Random House, 2013. 596 pages. ISBN 9781400067886. When I heard that Marisha Pessl had a new book out...

Caprice Crane, Confessions of a Hater . New York: Feiwel and Friends (an imprint of Macmillan), 2013. 358 pages. ISBN 9781250008466. As mu...

Recently I was reading an article that mentioned something that Tom Wolfe wrote and published in Harper’s Magazine in November 1989. Wolfe’...

Karen Russell, Swamplandia . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 316 pages. ISBN 9780307263995. I know I'm two years behind everyone else...